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I added your article to my Trump graph, and I may have to start a Chabad graph. I'd read some about them, but hadn't yet started absorbing them into my bigger picture.

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Now I have to wonder whether this is related to the odd way in which Guiliani cleared out the Italian mafia only to make way for the Russian mafia in NYC (how I interpret things). I lived in Manhattan in 1998. I worked less than a block from Time Square on 45th and walked home to 9th/49th, meaning I walked right through the corner of the red light district. Since I trade Japanese hours, this was 2-5 AM, and the streets were lit up and bustling with hustlers and hookers. Then one day, in an instant, it was gone. A cop on each corner and maybe one person walking somewhere, peep shows closed.

Most everyone appreciated the move, for obvious reasons. But was this about cleaning up the city, or preparing for a change in ownership and business model?

How much of Russian mafia is Jewish mafia? I really don't know, but since my brothers worked for the Dixie mafia, which is a Jewish mafia despite its name, I've always wondered about these relationships. There seems to be some speculation that Chabad is a meeting group for oligarchs and mafia much the same way the Catholic Church functioned that way between Italian/Sicilian mafia and royalty/bankers, but I haven't seen anything firm (in 30 min of researching).

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That's a great working theory. Chabad Lubavitch is deeply connected to Russian networks and we must not forget that the founders of the state of Israel were atheist anti-Americans who wanted to be friends with the Soviets when it was created. The only reason it ended up siding with America was because they needed mountains of cash. They took American weapons, reverse engineered them, and sold the technology to the Czechs especially.

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Interesting connections. Keep up the good work

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Nothing to see here 😏

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